There are times when you need to (re-)install Ubuntu on your computer and at the same time you are in situation where booting from CD-ROM is not possible. Luckily I found a post from Deepblue Spaces: Install Ubuntu 8.04 from Hard Disk that contains step-by-step to start Ubuntu installer from the official Ubuntu ISO. It […]
For some odd reason, the organization that I work with currently blocks del.icio.us (now delicious.com) social bookmarking service. It categorizes the website as porn (wtf?), they seems to use SquidGuard in combination with websense to block the website. Oh well, I guest I’ve to reexport all my local bookmark to delicious once I get back […]
I’m writing about this topic because I see there’s still much to be done to localize Ubuntu (or GNU/Linux based operating system in general) into Malay, the official language of my home county, Malaysia. As of this writing, the translated Malay strings in Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex) is about 19%, and thus we need more aspiring […]
Important announcement! Those who are still using Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) are advised to upgrade their distribution to later releases as it approaches end-of-life support, this October. What is end-of-life ? End of life means that the time where a product is no longer supported by its vendor. In case of Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), […]
Looks like I’m the last person to write about Chrome, the latest browser from Google. This is because I do not own a Microsoft Windows machine to test Chrome early on. I’m sure you can find a lot of great reviews floating around the internet about the latest lightweight browser, so I will not waste […]
I finally decided to get on twitter since I’ve been rarely had the time to update my blog anymore. So for those who are interested to follow my daily updates can do so by following my twits (username: mypapit). For the curious minds, my favorite twitter client are twim (Apache License 2.0) and twobile